Information and Communication fields are 100% guaranteed by the State budget

Accordingly, the press and media sector has 5 state budget services guaranteed 100%: 1- Information and propaganda serving political tasks; 2- Information and propaganda serving the task of ensuring security and national defense; 3- Information and propaganda serving foreign propaganda; 4- Information and propaganda serving teenagers, children, the deaf, the blind, ethnic minorities, areas with especially difficult socio-economic conditions, remote areas, border areas, islands and other important tasks suitable for each period according to the Prime Minister's decision; 5- Measuring the level of access and use of information by the audience to evaluate the effectiveness of information and propaganda content serving political - national defense, foreign affairs and socio-economic development tasks.

The information technology sector has 9 state budget services that are 100% guaranteed, such as: Coordinating network information security incident response activities of Party and State agencies, socio-political organizations; conducting cyber attack prevention drills to ensure information security for important areas of the Party and State; monitoring, preventing, and blocking spam emails and spam messages for Party and State agencies, socio-political organizations; monitoring information security for important areas and information systems serving e-Government;...

The Minister of Information and Communications shall promulgate, under his authority, economic and technical norms, criteria and quality standards for public career products and services using the state budget; coordinate with the Ministry of Finance to promulgate prices for public career services in the field of information and communications using the state budget in accordance with the provisions of the law on prices.

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Ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and government agencies, based on their tasks within the scope of management in the field of information and communications and the list of public career services, shall determine in detail the list of public career services using the state budget of ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and government agencies for submission to the Prime Minister for decision.

Provincial People's Committees shall, based on the tasks within the scope of local management in the field of information and communications and the list of public career services, develop and promulgate a list of public career services using the state budget in the field of information and communications according to decentralization within the scope of local management.